Unfortunately he seems to love to speak and announce many things but after that nothing happens for some reasons, especially when someone from the chat say one feature is missing during his live streams. But I wonder why they haven't already added it if they were interested in this matter. Even smaller casinos like Nitrobetting or Betnomi already have a poker room so it shouldn't be very hard for a big platform like Stake to create one.
It depends on what kind of poker Stake will have. If their goal is to create a poker cash game, then it really shouldn't be a hard task for them because they only need to add some tables on their site. However, if the Stake team wants to create a full-fledged poker room, they will need to create their own software for that anyway. In that case, that doesn't seem to be such an easy and quick task.
The demand on poker is not that high on crypto casino as you can see on other casino offering this kind of game. I doubt Stake is planning a full fledged poker room while they can only just add table for like what they did on their Evolution Gaming Exclusive Blackjack table.
I think they are doing the same path with their Blackjack tables on Evolution Gaming. They are just trying to customized the feature since this table is not available so far on Evo which probably the reason for the long wait for this game.
It may be that there is not as much demand in the casino for the game of poker because there are no poker games that are good, there are no poker games where you play against other people, there are only places where you have to pay to enter a tournament , and that is in few casinos, that is why there is not so much demand, but I have seen that in the threads there are poker players who have a lot of experience and who know many strategies, and they can also teach , I would like to play against all of them I know I would Lose, because I wouldn't know how to play, I would just play my game, but it's hard to win against experienced players.